engineer

t. [ENGINEER, 8.] 1. To direct or carry out as an engineer the formation or execution of; to perform the duties or part of an engineer in respect of. *2. To ply, to work upon, to use skill or ingenuity with. "Unle we engineered him with question after question, we could get nothing out of him."- Cowper : Works , xv. 64. *3. To guide, conduct, or manage by ingenuity and tact, to carry through against or over obstacles: as, to engineer a Bill through Congre . A. Trans.: To surround as with a girdle, to encircle. "A fine bordure circularly led That as a zone the waist engirdled ." Drayton: Barons' Wars, bk. vi. B. In trans.: To form a circle round, to encircle. "With hideous grasp the skies engirdle round." Glover: On Sir Isaac Newton. [ENGIRD.] To encircle, to sur- *en-girt', v . t. round, to inclose. ěn-gi-scope, s. [Gr. engys near, and skopeō = to view, to see.] A reflecting microscope, invented by Amici, in which the image is viewed at a side Newton i an telescope. en-gi-neër-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [ENGINEER, v.] aperture in the tube, in a manner similar to the A. As pr. par .: (See the verb.) B. As adj .: Pertaining to the art or science of an engineer, planned, directed, or carried out by an engineer. C. As subst.: The art or science of constructing engines and machines, and of planning and executing such works as fall to the duty of an engineer. Engineering may first be divided into four great branches-military, marine, mechanical, and civil. The Military Engineer has to do with that branch of the science which is connected with the planning, construction, and maintenance of fortifications, the defense or attack of places in war, the construction of such buildings as may be nece ary for military posts, the surveying of a country for military operations, . The duties of the Marine or Naval Engineer embrace works partly of a military and partly of a naval character. To him fall the planning and construction of ve els of war, and of various engines of war, as torpedoes, . Civil Engineering, the most extensive branch of the four, may be said to have originated in England about the middle of the last century. Before that chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; *en-glăd', v . t . [Pref. en , and Eng. glad (q. v.).] To make glad or cheerful; to gladden, to cheer. *en-glăd-děned, a . [Pref. en , and Eng. glad . dened (q.v.).] Gladdened, made glad, or cheerful. *en-glāim', *en-glayme, *en-gley me, v. t. [Pref. en , and Mid. Eng. glaym =clammy.] To make clammy or sticky.